I keep a toothpick in my Brusho box to open up the hole if it becomes blocked, but I have seen push pins being used as a sort of permanent topper.

The colors are more brilliant when the powder is shaken onto wet paper – but the dilute liquid gives you more control. It can be a very forgiving medium, allowing you to paint in a loose, expressive style making happy accidents along the way! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Lots of abstract images can be created using the thickened Brusho paints to create an abstract picture or prints.Brusho SprinkleITcomes in pearl, copper, iridescent flash, iridescent gold, gold and iridescent violet. The fourth method is the one which gives you the most control because it is simply turning the powder into liquid paint. Newspaper is very absorbent so the dilute Brushos had little flow, but remained bright and transparent.

Another dry on wet technique would be to draw out your flower shapes or objects first using either the water-soluble crayons or water-soluble pencils. We suggest anyone starting out with BRUSHO use it along side a few watercolour staples such as a good quality watercolour block so there's no need to stretch paper. Do bear in mind though, that since it is now essentially watercolour paint you still have the wilful nature of watercolour to contend with. Masking fluid can be used with Brusho paints or inks, just paint using a ruling pen or silicone applicator or an old brush onto the paper and leave to dry. Because the pigment powder is so fine, some artists may wear a mask, especially if they suffer from respiratory problems.Red, Scarlet, Alizarin Crimson, Brilliant Red, Rose Red, Crimson, Purple, Violet, Prussian Blue, Ost.

Brusho is manufactured by Colourcraft Limited established in 1978, a family run business based in Sheffield, in the UK. These last two paintings, where I added the powder to wet paper, and only used the dilute to create essential detail are my favorites, and I’ll probably use this technique the most.I received no considerations, though post may contain affiliate links which help support Doodlewash.

Brusho are pots of water-colour crystals which are transparent, intermixable, incredibly vibrant and highly pigmented. When used like traditional watercolour colours, once dried you can lift colour out with a clean wet brush, or dampen then lift with a tissue, you can create blooms of texture by spraying water over dried or wet Brusho paint, or allow the paints to mix on the paper and run into each other. Dilute Drop 2 – Dilute Brusho squeezed from an eye dropper onto wet paper and tilted to let the color run. Colourcraft Colours and Adhesives LTD did not ask me to review them, or any other company for that matter, or even knew that I planned to do so.

Spritz water on to water colour paper – sprinkle Brusho® Crystal Colour on to the paper and it bursts in to colour. Sunburst Lemon, Lemon, Yellow, Gamboge, Yellow Ochre, Sandstone, Terracotta, Vermillion, Orange, Ost.